A NAZI dagger and Samurai swords were among the bladed weapons handed in during the month-long knife amnesty.

Police have hailed it a success but admit there is a lot still to be done to rid Halton's streets of knives.

"This was not just an exercise in clearing people's drawers," said Widnes' neighbourhood policing inspector Nick Bailey.

"The way some of them were adapted shows they were intended to be used as weapons. Others are sharp domestic instruments but some are undoubtedly meant to be weapons."

In Widnes, 112 items were dumped in the red amnesty bin at Milton Road police station.

Thirty were domestic knives, such as bread knives, and 70 were non-domestic, for example pen, lock, and highly illegal flick and gravity knives.

Most eye-catching were the truncheon, iron bar and improvised cosh, along with the German Second World War dagger and oriental swords.

"Hopefully, there will be fewer incidents of knife carrying and the amnesty will have raised awareness among people who carry them for their own protection," Ins Bailey added.

"Most are carried and never used but it only takes one moment for someone to be killed."

Now the amnesty is over, anyone caught in possession of a knife or bladed weapon in public is breaking the law.